Amazon.com is working on a way to get packages to customers in 30 minutes or less - by drone. Consider it the modern version of a pizza delivery boy, minus the boy.
Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc plans to offer approximately 112.8 million shares in an initial public offering of its common stock, returning to the public markets about six years after it went private.
Tutti Frutti Jamaica has advertised for a candidate to oversee a new location, suggesting that the company is following through on plans to expand from its single outlet.
Dominica says it is pursuing efforts to get the European Union to remove the visa requirements for nationals travelling to Europe, saying that it was important to stimulate trade under the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) signed with Europe five years ago.
Sterling Investments Limited, an affiliate of Sterling Asset Management, has announced the appointment of two new members to the company's board, retired businessman Michael Bernard and attorney Derek Jones, who is now based in Cayman.
It's a big question for marketers: What kind of a buyer are you? And, as important, what are you willing to pay? In the search for answers this shopping season, consumer behaviour online and off is being tracked aggressively with help from advances in technology.
On November 13, the Xinhua News Agency, the official press agency of China, carried a report that indicated an important and seemingly strategic change in United States policy towards the Caribbean and Latin America.
Express Fitness Club, which opened its newest gym last month in Portmore Pines, now says it will enter two Caribbean markets by mid-2014 while it continues its local build-out. The two-year-old fitness company opened four gyms locally this year, doubling the chain to eight.
Scotia Group Jamaica hit a new high with annual net profit of $11.92 billion, eclipsing its previous record of $11.6 billion set four years ago in 2009.
I am the founder of a small business, which I run from home. I have registered the business name as a garage and offer general repairs, engine overhauls and transmission repairs. I also buy and sell motor vehicles for profit as well as for clients, for commission. I need some advice and direction from you regarding how to secure funding to grow my business.
Director General of the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), Colin Bullock, has pushing back against the suggestion that heightened stimulus spending by Government should be considered as a growth elixir.
My husband was hit by a car on Hagley Park Road near to Three Miles, Kingston 11, on May 14. He was knocked unconscious and suffered injuries which were treated at the Kingston Public Hospital. His lawyer told him that he was entitled to compensation. However, the insurers of the car refused to pay because "he was wrong to cross the road".
It is with great pleasure that I take this opportunity to write to you with regard to my current financial status. I am 24 years of age and currently looking to buy a house and a car. Please advise me on the way to go correctly and logically.
Derrimon Trading Company Limited will offer 73,336,007 of its ordinary shares on the market next week, each priced at $2.05.The J$150.34 million that the company aims to raise from the offer, will be used to expand its...
The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) is projecting that the direct contribution of travel and tourism gross domestic product ( GDP) to the Jamaican economy will rise by 3.7 per cent per annum to J$167.6 billion in a decade.Tourism is also...
Mark Kerr-Jarrett, owner of the Barnett Tech Park in Montego Bay, signed a contract with Steve Milner from Kier Construction Wednesday, to develop 50,000 square feet of production space at the park.The value of the contract...
Telecoms company LIME Jamaica has launched a cleaner, more modern design at its Lifestyle Store at Half Way Tree Road - a prototype for the upgrade of its retail stores nationwide.The store's $50 million upgrade features...
Jamaican Teas' four-year bond was listed on the market on Monday.It is the second bond to list following the relaunching of the Jamaica Stock Exchange's bond trading platform earlier this year.
For some persons, 13 is a bad number. For hard-nosed realists, it is just a number.
Trinidadians are finding out that treating 13 Jamaicans with palpable disrespect will turn 13 into a bad number for their exports which generate...
Andrew Issa, managing director of Executive Property Service Limited, and franchise holder for Coldwell Banker realty, says Coldwell Banker Island Affiliates (CBIA) has signed an agreement with Hamptons International, giving regional brokers an...
Medium-term growth could be spurred by concluding projects in energy and investing in security, says the president and CEO of Sagicor Life Jamaica Limited.The planned 360MW plant and a capital investment in technology ...
Insurance executive Richard Byles is proposing that the Jamaican Government give local investors a stake in large projects by securitising their debt and equity...
